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European perceptions of New-York, 1890-1940 : challenging tourist
experience. |
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by David GILBERT et Claire HANCOCK
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| Careful reading of French and British
travel literature about New York from 1890 to the thirties enables
us, in this paper, to show how a city originally considered as ill-favoured
from a touristic perspective may have participated to a renewal
of that very perspective. |
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Welcome in Cajun Country. The development of cultural tourism in
small towns of former French Louisiana. |
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by Sara LE MENESTREL
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| Since the early 90's, several towns in
Cajun Country have developed a tourist policy, determined to take
advantage of the increasing popularity of the Cajun culture. The
enhancing of the local cultural heritage is initiated by the French
Movement's activists and pioneer individuals of French descent,
who confer on tourism a vital role in the perpetuation of the Louisiana
French language and culture. This policy reveals social divisions
within the francophone community, between Cajuns and Black Creoles.
A source of social prestige, tourism also participates to the recombining
of the towns' social relations, contributing to the emergence of
new local notabilities. Besides, it partakes in the revitalization
of these communities through its economic potential and its role
in the strengthening of social ties. |
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Half-souk, half-museum : tourist territories and oasis society in
Tozeur, Tunisia. |
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by Nicolas PUIG
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| This article gives an anthropological
insight into the effects of the very voluntarist tourism program
developed by the town of Tozeur (south-east of Tunisia) during the
last decade. The presentation of oasis world's cultural heritage
relies on the way local people imagine tourists expectations. The
interactions between tourists and local populations are analysed
from different angles i.e. the latter taking over new tourist spaces
generated by the symbolical construction of local exoticism ; the
emergence of the "biznessa" type of young tunisian involved
in the "business" of retouring trips organised by professional
tourism. The "common places" of tourism are therefore
very likely to reveal local cultures and the wide field of their
challenges and strategies. |
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From military to tourist development : the new destiny of the Sinaï
Peninsula. |
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by Olivier SANMARTIN
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| The Sinai peninsula, theatre and stake
of numerous conflicts, is going today through changes launched by
egyptian State who wishes to invest a territory which was for a
long time a defensive glacis. Among those transformations, involving
new actors, public and private, national and foreign, tourism development
contributed to reniew deeply organisation and meaning of this land.
According to different trends, tourism now takes up a central place
in regional (and national) economy : being at the origin of creation
of new centers, like Sharm al-Sheikh, the main resort in south of
the peninsula ; it also energized an old town like al-Arish, the
regional capital. Through these exemples we show the multifarious
dimensions of tourism, the stakes it represents and the images it
products in Sinai, a frontier space where strategic function reminds
essential. |
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Tourism and urban regulation : the case of Mexico megalopolis. |
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by Daniel HIERNAUX-NICOLAS
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For the last fifty years, the importance
of urban tourism has been increasing all over the world, and the
city of Mexico comes particularly well within the new dynamics of
international tourism.
The article starts analysing the contrasted evolution of tourism
in the country of Mexico, and its links to a succession of models.
It then demonstrates how, in the context of the opening of markets,
the increase of internationalisation of models, this country has
made great benefit from the emergence of urban tourism, the city
of Mexico being easily representative of this trend : the growth
of installations, the geography of trips in the city organise the
assets of the capital. The reorientation of public policies recently
introduced to support urban tourism (like the renovation of the
historical centre) intend to give Mexico a central role in urban
tourism in general and in Mexican tourism in particular. |
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Aesthetics and urbanity : an insight into the Japanese situation. |
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par
Fujio ADACHI & Philippe BONNIN
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| Japanese aesthetic about modern urban
landscape was formed since Meiji period upon admiration of western
civilisation, preeminance of visitor over inhabitant, and incapacity
to act in a general concern out of crises, otherwise in isolated
and prestigious points. The modernisation (kindai ka), for a long
time expected, is fused with western style (Yôka), and adorn
with all evils. Urbanistic rules exist, but are malajusted or inapplicated.
The absence of aesthetic consensus relative to urban landscape forbid
to do regulation. Nevertheless, ancient and modern aesthetics are
not necessarily incompatible, and can product contrast effects,
a mutual highlight. Preservation movements and experimentations
appears in Kyôto, foreseeing changes of the situation. |
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Family mobilization in social achievement of children from the Algerian
immigration. |
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par
Emmanuelle SANTELLI
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This article aims at introducing a reflection
about the incidence of family mobilization related to the socio-professional
achievement of children born from the Algerian immigration. Two
samples of managers and business owners have been constituted and
then analysed in order to highlight the socialisation processes
that can help us into approaching professional careers. A special
emphais will be added to the intergenerationnal and migratory history
through family legacy.
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